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[sour fulcrum]

Two spikes shouldn’t randomly be different for no reason

[echo copper]

guys, who knows how to stop the stack's flow for some time. like, the analog on time.sleep() in python but for unity? Thread.Sleep doesn't work for me idk why

[sour fulcrum]

Why

Design your level in a way that doesn’t make this happen

[echo copper]

well, there are some actions i need to do but one should go after previous one

[naive pawn]

don't try to make the thread sleep, that'll just freeze everything. use timers or coroutines (or their alternatives)

[echo copper]

ohdamn

[naive pawn]

(timers here referring to having a variable that counts time, not the class called Timer)

[toxic ledge]

Shud i try to fixe the code editor ?

And if yes can someone maybe help me?

[naive pawn]

are you referring to ide configuration

[toxic ledge]

Yep

The one that i some how got it to work very bad

[naive pawn]

do you have proper syntax highlighting, and do you have autocomplete

[toxic ledge]

1 what and 2 no

[grand snow]

syntax highlighting = pretty colours on your code

[toxic ledge]

I have some kind

Let me look

I jave blue green blue pink

And some other colore idk how to name

And ys is outo fills but idk if is the good comand

[grand snow]

If type names, fields and functions appear as you type code then its working

also if errors are underlined

[naive pawn]

show them

[toxic ledge]

and i see this in problems

[twin pivot]

public class Singleton:MonoBehavior
  {
    public static Singleton singleton;
  }
```is this not how you make a singleton?

[distant saddle]

i guess i will just do that for now .

[frail hawk]

you have to assign your object to the field you created

[naive pawn]

this is intellicode, not intellisense

[strong wren]

Probably Copilot. Intellicode is a lot more tame afaik.

[naive pawn]

is intellicode not the name of the feature within copilot?

i thought copilot encompassed a lot more

well, i guess now it's "inline suggest" according to the setting names, but that's much vaguer...

[sour fulcrum]

They are killing intellicode

[naive pawn]

the product or the feature

[sour fulcrum]

Former, it’s copilot now

[twin pivot]

is there a way to do it in engine or do i need to do it in code

[sour fulcrum]

with limited rates

[toxic ledge]

well the feature dosent work xd

[naive pawn]

doesn't "copilot" include chat and terminal integration and such

[sour fulcrum]

Most people do it in awake or in a property, google has examples

[sour fulcrum]

They mold copilot like play dough to fit wherever it can in order to increase the amount of users using copilot

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons.html

[strong wren]

It is an earlier feature to handle predictable edits, like repeated renames and other small stuff like that. Also reorders your intellisense suggestions.

[toxic ledge]

shud i reintall video code editor?

[naive pawn]

no, and that's not what it's called

do you have intellisense

[toxic ledge]

sorry.

[naive pawn]

are you on windows or mac

[sour fulcrum]

(It’s also in Notepad and Paint btw 😭)

[toxic ledge]

windows

[naive pawn]

hm i don't remember what the bind to trigger intellisense is on windows.. probably ctrl+space or ctrl+period

[naive pawn]

what does it even do in paint

[sour fulcrum]

Image prompting i think

[toxic ledge]

you mean the panel whit suggestions of comands?

if yes is ctrl and space

[naive pawn]

well they aren't commands

[toxic ledge]

scrip or code?

[naive pawn]

if they're showing proper identifiers or keywords, rather than just words in the file, then it's configured properly

perhaps show that window

[toxic ledge]

what im talking abt is this window or pop up or how ev you wana call it x3

[naive pawn]

yeah, that's intellisense

and that's properly configured then

[toxic ledge]

so i just need to olwos press ctrl space?

oke ty tho im not doing now cus ehhh...

i dont feel like codeind rn sorry

[naive pawn]

you shouldn't have to, it should show up when you start typing an identifier automatically

[toxic ledge]

yes and no

[toxic ledge]

1 sec il show you

frist pic is automatic and second is when i press it

btw sorry for so meny pics i just cant type well in english

[echo copper]

how to initiate a function inside a command? Can i do smth like Tween.onComplete( void smth {blablabla});

[naive pawn]

so the same thing?

it's working normally then

[naive pawn]

use a lambda (local methods or just method references would also work)

[toxic ledge]

not ryly it give diverent comands i mean

[naive pawn]

those are the same lists

[toxic ledge]

just to be sure it works it hase to be void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

yes?

[naive pawn]

yeah

you shouldn't rely on the AI suggestions though

[toxic ledge]

ik tho till i learn how to code idk what to do yk?

[solar hill]

You wont learn any better with using AI

People have been learning to code the old fashioned way for over 40 years now, people pretend like its suddenly impossible without AI

[elfin pike]

I cant decide. I have class which stores dictionary( SO and id). Where should i make id? in dictionary class or ScriptableObject?

[toxic ledge]

i just sed that till i learn how to code what you want me to do

[sour fulcrum]

read lol

[elfin pike]

coding cant be learned by watching long tutorial videos or using AI

[solar hill]

Reread what i said, and what you said previously

[toxic ledge]

then how i learn it

[solar hill]

Tutorials, courses, guides, books etc.

Not AI

[elfin pike]

Code, read documents and ask questions in experienced programmers chat groups

[toxic ledge]

im broke to get courses

[elfin pike]

I think paid courses are scam. there are courses for free

[toxic ledge]

code what i have 0 expiriense

[elfin pike]

Guys what you think? I think its better to make in Dictionary

[twin pivot]

Code very simple arcade games

[verbal dome]

What do you mean with "where should i make id"?

Like where to declare the type or?

[solar hill]

Plenty of cheap or free ones

[toxic ledge]

i have no money TvT

[elfin pike]

I had maybe small experience, but you could say i had 0. Then started doing these steps.

1. What i want to make?
2. How much time will it take? Triple time
3. Start coding
4. fix or look up examples if something doesnt work

[solar hill]

Something free seldom requires money

[verbal dome]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[twin pivot]

Triple time seems a bit inaccurate

Maybe cubing time would be better XD

[elfin pike]

referencing SO in files, like levels or items. Thats why made class with dictionary, which has SO reference and id. Before that class i generated id in SO, but maybe i should do it in Dictionary

[naive pawn]

everyone had 0 experience once

[naive pawn]

that would be using the id, wouldn't it

are you asking whether to store the id in the SO or not?

[verbal dome]

Or where to generate the ID?

I'm still confused

[toxic ledge]

im doing the tutorials...

[elfin pike]

yes

[toxic ledge]

ye but i will strugal more then you think to learn to code

[naive pawn]

you should probably store the id in the SO, to have a reverse mapping.

thus, you should probably make the id in the SO

[elfin pike]

Dont we all struggle when starting something new?

[verbal dome]

Yeah sounds like the SO should own the ID

[naive pawn]

i have a very low bar based on past experience with arrogant, entitled beginners.

you're only 1 of those 3 qualifiers

[elfin pike]

Okay, then OnValidate im going to pull ID and store in dictionary

[naive pawn]

why OnValidate

seems a bit unnecessary to refresh the ID that frequently?

[queen vale]

Another day, another bug. Goodmorning people

[naive pawn]

i feel like Reset or Awake would be adequate, depending on the lifetime of the dictionary in question

[toxic ledge]

ye but idk if the tutorial from unity will ryly help me learn how to code idk...

[elfin pike]

Doesnt it get called, when data is added in inspector?

[naive pawn]

stop doubting and start trying

if it doesn't work out, there are other tutorials for you to try

but you won't learn at all if you never start

[naive pawn]

yeah, so why do you need to refresh the ID every time the SO is changed

[verbal dome]

It gets called in a bunch of places
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnValidate.html

OnValidate is called at various stages during the Editor's normal operation, such as loading scenes, building a Player, and entering Play mode.

OnValidate can be called often when the user interacts with an Inspector in the Editor. It can also be called from threads other than Unity's main thread, such as the loading thread. For these reasons, only use OnValidate to validate the data that changed. Don't use it to do other tasks such as creating objects or calling other non-thread-safe Unity API.

[queen vale]

You also don't learn by copy-pasting tutorial code. Gotta play with it, see when/why it works, read about it. Try to use it in different ways.

[verbal dome]

OnValidate of the SO or of the dictionary class?

[elfin pike]

wanted easy way to add ID in dictionary, when putting SO in dictionary

[verbal dome]

(If i understand correctly you have some dictionary wrapper class?)

Or where is the dictionary stored

[naive pawn]

there are other messages that seem more appropriate for that

[elfin pike]

public class SO_Dictionary : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializedDictionary("ID", "ScriptableObject")]
    public SerializedDictionary<int, ScriptableObject> db;

    void OnValidate()
    {
       

    }
}```

[naive pawn]

this doesn't really make sense. you want an easy way to add the SO, when you add the SO?

you can't put the SO in without a key

starting to feel like this is an x/y problem

[elfin pike]

I made it as SO, because it will be reused for other SO. Maybe i should add Interface for id SO

[naive pawn]

what's the overall goal here?

[elfin pike]

Easy to get SO reference, when loading data from json file

yesterday i asked and got answer, that dictionary would be best option for it

[naive pawn]

and you want to add serializedobjects to the dictionary in the editor?

i'm not sure a serializeddictionary is the best flow for that

you could just have an array/list to add to, and then build the dictionary in memory

having the id serialized in 2 places seems like a potential spot for mistakes, just accidentally changing the ID or something like that

[elfin pike]

I needed way to add object to it, thats why took Serializeddictionary, which doesnt make big difference

[naive pawn]

and you wouldn't want to have to constantly refresh the serializeddictionary

[naive pawn]

which doesn't make a big difference from what

[elfin pike]

performance

[elfin pike]

Thats why, asked make id in SO (Harder to get reference, when you only know id) or dictionary (this would work more like database from which classes can take reference)?

[toxic ledge]

So all i do when codeing is trying and hopeing it works and then if it dosent i seek help?

[naive pawn]

ok, that's not what i'm talking about

[naive pawn]

you can do both. that's what a reverse mapping is

[elfin pike]

same as with AI, but you think and later wont make same mistake

[naive pawn]

not all trial and error. gotta read up beforehand so you have a good idea of what you're going for first, and then try with that knowledge

[echo copper]

why?

[toxic ledge]

I can berly understand english idk if i can learn codeing from reading

[naive pawn]

why what? the error seems pretty clear

[naive pawn]

what's your native language

[echo copper]

what's wrong here?

[green arch]

the font

[naive pawn]

presumably you did not assign an AudioClip to the AudioSource, and you aren't providing an AudioSource there, so it doesn't know what you want it to play

[green arch]

also probably this ^

[toxic ledge]

Romanian

[echo copper]

hahaha funny one

[green arch]

are you providing that to the script ?

oh youre using getcomponent

[echo copper]

yes

[green arch]

getcomponent is terrible imo

assign it in the editor

do public audiosource...

[echo copper]

ok

[green arch]

and assign it in the editor

and see

probably getcomponent isnt finding it

[queen vale]

Is butt the component this adiosource attached to and how is the function being called?
Debug.log is a good idea, see if the function is even being ran.

[green arch]

ye id reccomend adding debug log as well

[naive pawn]

then try googling for romanian c# resources

[echo copper]

yes

[echo copper]

it works

thanks'

[green arch]

np

[echo copper]

btw, there is a small delay before playing the sound. how to fix it?

[toxic ledge]

There is none

[queen vale]

The delay is likely due to your SoundClip having blank space (* the clip/audio file may have an amount of time prior to the desired sound/noise.)

[naive pawn]

i googled and found 2

[echo copper]

no, it isn't

[green arch]

I'd say using something like chatGPT would be a good resource for you. But it sucks not knowing english, english is my 4th language and man am i glad to know it, resources in other languages are hard

[queen vale]

As in, no sound for the first second prior

[green arch]

if you're romanian, learning french would be easier imo

[naive pawn]

that wasn't mentioned...

ah i missed the singular message that mentioned that. mb

[queen vale]

I think I misunderstand something... they mentioned a delay, the first thing my mind goes to is the audioclip (soundclip is the wrong term) having no ("blank") sound for x time

[elfin pike]

Reverse mapping is hard to understand. Its about making one object from different object?

[naive pawn]

you have 2 things, id and SO

from id, you can get SO (forward mapping)
from SO, you can also get id (reverse mapping)

[elfin pike]

Part about doing both? in the end i should create id on SO and then add to dictionary

[toxic ledge]

No

[naive pawn]

yes, that's what i said to begin with

and you can build the forward mapping dynamically, so it isn't serialized (where you can accidentally mess it up)

[echo copper]

guys, please. how to remove the delay in playing sounds in unity? there is no delays in my sound

[naive pawn]

that's why i said to consider a list/array instead

[queen vale]

If it's not an issue with your audioclip, i'd point to the script / function triggering the sound.

[echo copper]

what's the issue then?

[solar hill]

How should we know without seeing it

[queen vale]

Hard to say without seeing

[toxic ledge]

I wana learn to code not just make somting stupid and not learn enything

[solar hill]

!code

[twin pivot]

Just start to the best of ur ability and google whatever issues ur facing and if u cant find/understand something ask here for help

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[echo copper]

@solar hill @queen vale

[solar hill]

Its gotta be at the start of the message

[solar hill]

Is it a large audio file?

[echo copper]

very large

[echo copper]

62 Kb

[green arch]

gpt and LLMs are just tools, if youre trying to build a project with them, you'll end up with slop. But, if you use it to get some information on how certain scripts work, it can be very useful. Find english tutorials, look at the github repo, ask GPT to explain the code in your language. Its a very feasible way to learn

[elfin pike]

in serialize i cant mess it up, because using it only for referencing SO. I could make serialized array, which on game starts add them in dictionary, without allowing to change id

[toxic ledge]

Ye but im scared when il try to code lets sey my own game like just somting simpel and i cant figure it out at all im eberesed ro ask every time or sum yk?..

[twin pivot]

Chatgpt will spit out wrong information confidently

[echo copper]

use deepseek instead

[queen vale]

Keep a simple "scope". Watch tutorials. Each piece builds the puzzle.

Fear only keeps you from learning

[elfin pike]

Do collab work, if you are that scared, but thenn nnot100% copy paste AI code. it only messes up project

[toxic ledge]

Can you explain abit more pls?

[naive pawn]

when it's a serialized dictionary, you could accidentally break the forward mapping.

[solar hill]

Gonna go on a whim and say it might be related to your scene manager loading, if its doing anything async it might cause lag that delays the audio

[twin pivot]

As long as u follow the guide on how to ask for help ull be fine

Trust me half the times i ask for help here i realize its something really simple and kick myself

[queen vale]

"Scope" refers to... the grand idea of your project, how much is involved to create the final project... and MMORPG, has a TON of things going into it... a match 3 puzzle game is much more simple compared to that.

[solar hill]

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

[elfin pike]

I know, because of changing id,
but i wont touch id. it will be pulled from referenced SO. i think 100% fool proof

[green arch]

if you don't know how to code and there arent a lot of resources in your language, asking it to explain simple tutorial scripts is probably something it can handle. I understand LLMs can spit out wrong information, but if he doesn't know english very well, it could be a very good resource imo

[solar hill]

Great thing about coding is that theres almost always resources in every language

[green arch]

but honestly, your english is good enough to ask for advice

are there many tutorials available with subtitles for romanian ?

because youtube's auto trancription thing is getting quite good as well

[toxic ledge]

Im shy to come for every problem il encounter yk?..

[naive pawn]

do you know what "accidentally" means

[elfin pike]

When world stopped using machine learning and chat bots, and started to use word AI for everything that isnt AI

[solar hill]

Like most internet chatrooms, anonimity is pretty common

What exactly is there to be shy about

We dont know you

You dont know us

[elfin pike]

i know. it means there's atleast 1% chance to make mistake

[queen vale]

I'm dumb, I give wrong answers all the time. people correct me. No biggie.
Noones gonna hate you for asking a question

[toxic ledge]

I just have a trauma whit that is all..

[naive pawn]

so use the method where you can't accidentally change the id

[queen vale]

Just gotta bang your head on the wall long enough to find the answer

[solar hill]

Cascadeur renaming their briliant automatic interpolation to "AI interpolation" as marketing... even though its just an advanced ML algorithm

[toxic ledge]

Srill i fell like someone will sey why i keep coming back or sum like that every time or etc.

[solar hill]

And

What of it

[naive pawn]

kuzmo comes back every day

[elfin pike]

option i said before. use array to serialize objects and OnAwake for each object take id and story it in dictionary, which wont be serialized

[naive pawn]

many of the people here, active right now, ask questions frequently. it's how learning works

[naive pawn]

...that's what i said, yes

[queen vale]

Look at my prof. been here 5 years. Doubt most people even recognise me (though tbf, i dip for months sometimes).

[elfin pike]

So many products say AI, but in end of day, its one if else statment

[naive pawn]

-# 5 years ago was 2017, right...?

[twin pivot]

Like i have already accepted that i know nothing and any question i ask will probably be stupid so if im gonna be stupid might as well ask people for help sooner than later

[solar hill]

2021 was a year ago wdym

[queen vale]

.... it's 2026, 2026-5 = 2021..?

[toxic ledge]

No?

[twin pivot]

-# i thought that was 2015.....

[green arch]

damn, no gifs in this server ?

[solar hill]

Was a jest

[naive pawn]

-# it was a joke, yall

[green arch]

i had such a good gif for this

[toxic ledge]

Oh ok i started to feel old

[queen vale]

mannn.. had me questioning my math

[naive pawn]

yeah

-# was saying "5 years ago" feels like 2017

[queen vale]

Fair though

[twin pivot]

Idk man it still feels like 2020 to me

[queen vale]

covid era made it feel like a leap in time imo

.... what a time to get quiet ...

[elfin pike]

Scriptable object doesnt have on start or on awake

[toxic ledge]

Well uhh il try tomarow cus today i feel burned out sorry :<

[naive pawn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/ScriptableObject.Awake.html

nothing has OnAwake

it's not called that lol

[elfin pike]

using System.Collections.Generic;

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "Dictionary", menuName = "Scriptable Objects/Dictionary")]
public class SO_Dictionary : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] public IdObject[] SOs;
    public Dictionary<int, IdObject> db {get; private set;}

    void OnEnable()
    {
        db = new(); // now its created
        foreach(IdObject SO in SOs)
        {
            db.Add(SO.id,SO);
        }
    }
}```how this?

[naive pawn]

ooo i forgot about building the actual dict. docs say to use OnEnable instead of Awake so it'd build when you enter playmode

[elfin pike]

forgot that now i have issue that cant access LevelData (SO, which is IdObject), because Dictionary reference IdObject

[naive pawn]

you could have separate SOs for different types maybe, depending on what you need it to be able to hold overall

(though why can't you just reference SOs directly again?)

[elfin pike]

idk, im dumb. I could just add this logic in my static class

[naive pawn]

no like is this an addressibles thing or what

why do you need the indirection?

[elfin pike]

because ill have different SOs which need id

[naive pawn]

why do you need IDs

why can you not just reference the SOs

[elfin pike]

can you reference SO in Json? XD

[naive pawn]

cool, that answers my question

[green arch]

what are you using them for ?

if you want to implement like a game save, you can serialize and deserialize them

[elfin pike]

level progression. To track what levels are unlocked and how they preformed in each level

[green arch]

you can have the monobehaviour write to its data

have a field like playtime

for instance

setPlaytime(int something) on the moniobehaviour

writes to the data

[elfin pike]

give documentation

[green arch]

i did this a while back

let me see if i can get the scripts for you

okay here's an example

i have something like

public class BlockData : ScriptableObject
{
    public string blockName = "Block";
    public bool isImmovable = false;
    public GameObject blockPrefab;
    public Vector3 BlockPosition;


    public enum BlockColor
    {
        White,
        Red,
        Yellow,
        Blue,
        Purple,
        Orange,
        Green,
        Black
    }

    public BlockColor blockColor = BlockColor.Red;
    public List<BlockColor> containedColors = new List<BlockColor>();

and in a monobehaviour, i can access position to move it at the start of the game:

if (runtimeData != null)
        {
            _gridMover.gridPosition = new Vector2Int((int)runtimeData.BlockPosition.x, (int)runtimeData.BlockPosition.z);
        }
        else if (data != null)
        {
            _gridMover.gridPosition = new Vector2Int((int)data.BlockPosition.x, (int)data.BlockPosition.z);
        }

or i can write to the data like this:

        runtimeData.containedColors = new List<BlockData.BlockColor>(_containedPrimaryColors);

[elfin pike]

Is it good practice to edit scriptable Object fields? Also it won't save between sessions

[frail hawk]

do you mean changing them at runtime

[elfin pike]

Very big example xD. You can make example about it in 5 lines

[elfin pike]

I talked about saving data between sessions and he popped in and gave runtime data saving

[frail hawk]

you asked if it is good practise to edit scriptable object fields, didn´t you

[elfin pike]

Had question until googled and got answer, that SO set values don't get saved between sessions

[frail hawk]

then you should ask google more often

[cosmic dagger]

depends if it's during runtime or in the editor . . .

[grand snow]

In editor changes persist!!!

[elfin pike]

Okay, it's with everything in editor

[grand snow]

In a build changes are not kept so this cannot be used to "store" data long term

[elfin pike]

That's why using json

[grand snow]

Then just be aware of what happens if you modify a scriptable object asset

Best to avoid it during runtime/playmode

[cosmic dagger]

with a game build, editing an SO will not store the changes made, but inside of the editor, changing an SO field will KEEP any change made . . .

[verbal dome]

And it will only get saved in the editor if it gets marked dirty somehow

[green arch]

its an example from a game with a functioning save system that i made

[green arch]

just store it as json

[green arch]

im setting fields on an instance of it

which can be serialized and saved to json

its just cleaner to have a runtime data copy and save those changes to the data of the object on session quit

[green arch]

/ session save

[elfin pike]

So you save in SO and then on quite you save it as json?

[grand snow]

Sounds like you need 2 classes

Or to make a new instance at runtime to avoid messing up an asset

[elfin pike]

At that point, can't u use static class. Also, some stuff you can turn into json

[blissful stratus]

wtf is that?

[blissful stratus]

nvm i restarted unity

it doesnt end

[swift crag]

hmm, no other errors in the console (there's only one red 🛑 message)

[wintry quarry]

what version?

[summer bear]

Does anyone know how to use material property blocks for material switches?

My print value is updating properly, but the material isnt changing when I adjust my blink variable (it does for the others though)

which makes me think the reference is wrong or something else

a switch should be a true/false boolean, and an int should work as 0 and 1 for that, no?

[swift crag]

You can't change keywords with a material property block

_TESTCOL_ON sure sounds like a keyword here

Changing keywords means you're loading a totally different shader variant

[summer bear]

I'm not sure if I am following, where did I change keywords?

This is the property list

[swift crag]

the switch says it's using _TESTCOL_ON

[summer bear]

Hmm let me try something then

[swift crag]

I know that Unity can toggle keywords based on material properties

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MaterialPropertyDrawer.html

your setup looks like you're meaning to use [Toggle]

(i have no idea how this interacts with Amplify)

[swift crag]

the [Toggle(FOO)] material property drawer causes unity to turn on a keyword named FOO_ON if you set the property to true

[summer bear]

Yea I took off the keyword name

so it should just be _TESTCOL

unfortunately its not working still

[swift crag]

This is still a keyword-based choice

lemme check the docs

[faint agate]

hey guys I have a weird problem that im not sure is fixable but ill ask.
I have a pistol
I shoot 3 times and each time I look more to the left
the probem is one of the shots are to the right.
I have a drawray for my raycast and when I look slightly to the left it sometimes bounces to the right.
is this a unity bug or fixable?

[swift crag]

okay, so you're using this

https://wiki.amplify.pt/index.php?title=Unity_Products:Amplify_Shader_Editor/Static_Switch

[summer bear]

Oh shit

[solar hill]

we would need to actually see your code to know what is happening

[summer bear]

so is that why I cannot fetch the property with PropertyToID?

because the keyword is changing?

[swift crag]

Your actual property name is _TESTCOL, and that should have been fine

I think the problem is just that a MaterialPropertyBlock cannot cause keywords to change

https://discussions.unity.com/t/materialpropertyblock-shader-keywords/633268/2

So if you had directly set the int on the material itself, you'd have seen it working

[summer bear]

Which isn't ideal in my case, I would need to do a property block :<

[swift crag]

I would suggest replacing the Static Switch node with an If node

check if the _TESTCOL property equals 1

Keywords are appropriate for enabling or disabling large, expensive features

[summer bear]

So switchs arent ideal in my case

[swift crag]

yeah, Static Switch would be useful for turning on a major feature

[blissful stratus]

there is +999 but collapsed

[swift crag]

oh yeah, just not any other messages

These messages get spammed when Unity is failing to free up some memory that it allocated

Sometimes that comes along with an error that prevented it from doing that

[blissful stratus]

what should i do there is about 2gig left in the task manger

[solar hill]

so tell me again, what behavior is happening, and what is the expected behaviour

[summer bear]

Im going to try an If node real quick

[wintry quarry]

Try upgrading to the latest version

[blissful stratus]

its the latest lts vir

[wintry quarry]

this is the latest

[solar hill]

can you not

every time someone told you to stop shitposting you apologize and then continue to do it

[summer bear]

Works

[solar hill]

there si no right channel for that

[summer bear]

Thank you

[swift crag]

nice (:

[summer bear]

I wasnt aware Switch wasn't the play here

[blissful stratus]

oh yeah ididnt know they updated it thx

[swift crag]

in plain shader code, you'd see something like this:

#if FEATURE_ON
// do something
#else
// do something else
#endif

The keyword affects which block of code gets compiled in the first place

[faint agate]

When I look slow left and shoot like 5 times. some of the shots are to the right

[swift crag]

vs. a dynamic branch, which would be more like

if (_UseFeature)
  // foo
else
  // bar

both sides of the branch are compiled here, and the side you take depends on the property

[faint agate]

how my shots are going

[solar hill]

do you have a video?

[faint agate]

my clipping doesnt work 🙁

i have an idea one sec

[summer bear]

Yay! It works perfectly, thank you ❤️

[vast matrix]

For some reason when I try to Instantiate an object it spawns multiple objects instead of just one. Here is my code: ```using System.Collections;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Pool;
public class PotionSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{

public GameObject[] Potions;
public Transform Player;


private void Update()
{
    StartCoroutine(SpawnPotions());
}

IEnumerator SpawnPotions() 
{

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Escape))
        {
            // Spawn Potions around Player
            Instantiate(Potions[Random.Range(0, 2)], Player.position, Player.rotation);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
        }


}

}

[wintry quarry]

You're doing it every frame

because it's in Update

[vast matrix]

oh ok

[wintry quarry]

As for your coroutine usage - it is pointless in your example

[vast matrix]

So I should change the If statement to update

[wintry quarry]

the fact you are doing this in a coroutine does nothing

other than adding complexity to the code

you are starting a new coroutine every single frame here

[vast matrix]

The coroutine is for later

[wintry quarry]

and then the coroutine immediately spawns something (if the key is pressed) and then contiunues to wait pointlessly for 5 seconds before it stops existing

[wintry quarry]

I can't give you any advice on what to change unless you explain exactly how you want the code to behave

[wintry quarry]

it's basically already in Update

Can you explain how you want this to work?

Do you want to spawn one object every time the player presses Escape?

if so:

void Update() {
  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)) {
    Instantiate(...);
  }
}```

[vast matrix]

The goal of the code is to spawn an object every couple seconds, but I currently have it set to escape in order to spawn the items whenever

Otherwise I would have put it in a while loop

[wintry quarry]

So which one? Every frew seconds, or when the player presses escape?

Or both?

[vast matrix]

Currently the latter but I would like to get it to work inside the coroutine for the future

[wintry quarry]

For the latter I gave the example above

for the former you would do something like:

float timer = 0; // a timer variable to keep track of how much time has passed
float interval = 5; // time between spawns

void Update() {
   timer += Time.deltaTime;
   if (timer >= interval) {
     timer -= interval;
     Instantiate(...);
   }
}```

[vast matrix]

ok thank you

[wintry quarry]

I wouldn't recommend a coroutine here, as it's more difficult to make a consistent/accurate timer with one

it's also a bit more complex, for little benefit

[faint agate]

i also tried lerp and timedelta but the raycast keeping bouncing the wrong way im turning. the smoothing doesnt change it from bouncing the wrong way im a little lost

[amber spruce]

anyone got a really good 3d character controller?

idk if it matters but i want to be able to change the gravity for the player

[naive pawn]

!code

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```cs
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[naive pawn]

this is pretty easy in most if not all controllers

try googling around

[green arch]

^ this is exactly what i do

[green arch]

you shouldn't be saving directly to it

always an instance of it

even better if you make a runtime copy and edit that

[faint agate]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PocketPath : MonoBehaviour {
    private void Update() {
        //  Ray ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f));
        float maxDistance = 200f;


        //Red ray in center
        Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction * maxDistance, Color.yellow);

    }
}

[swift crag]

This smells like an order-of-execution problem

I bet the raycast is being computed before the camera rotates

this will make it look like the raycast is angling slightly away from wherever you're trying to aim

[faint agate]

interesting I havent thought of that

[faint agate]

i get what your sayin but im havin a hard time figuring out what I need to change or add

[tacit prism]

was reading the unity documentation looking for some explanation on a certain thingy but couldnt find much on it, or the documentation was just too hard for me to read at the moment

im working with button inputs and an input reader right now and im wondering where i could find some information on what the rest of the actions following context. could do

i see canceled, interaction, and i was told to do performed, but im wondering what others might do, as i feel they could probably be very useful

like i see one called time and i wonder if that has a count based on deltatime (if inserted)?

unity documentation kinda confuses me

[wintry quarry]

Have you considered looking at the docs?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html

It explains what everything does

[wintry quarry]

what part are you confused by

[tacit prism]

i used the search bar and it probably gave me 100+ things i did not know how to sort out which was which

[wintry quarry]

Oh sorry I realized you're looking at CallbackContext. Which is here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.CallbackContext.html

And here's an explanation of what time is: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.CallbackContext.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_CallbackContext_time

[tacit prism]

thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Well you would click on the thing that you're actually interested in knowing about. For example if you searched CallbackContext the first result is the article for the CallbackContext struct itself.

The rest of the results in this case are just other pages that reference it.

read the title of the link to understand what page it will take you to

[faint agate]

I tried lateupdate but that didnt work

[faint agate]

any tips on how id go about it ?

[lunar axle]

how to get addressables label of this current gameobject that has the label c#

[slender nymph]

store the label at the time you initially retrieve the object, then you just get it from where ever you stored it

[vast matrix]

For some reason instantiate is spawning multiple copies of the same object. How do I get it to only spawn one copy. Here is my code: ```using System.Collections;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Pool;
public class PotionSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{

public GameObject[] Potions;
public Transform Player;


private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Escape))
    {
        // Spawn Potions around Player
        Instantiate(Potions[Random.Range(0, 2)], new Vector3(Player.position.x + Random.Range(-5, 2), 0, Player.position.z + Random.Range(-5,2 )), Player.rotation);
    }
}

}

[slender nymph]

GetKey is true for every single frame that the key is down, perhaps you want a method that only returns true the first frame the key is pressed

[vast matrix]

Yes that would be what I am looking for

[slender nymph]

then consider looking at the documentation

[vast matrix]

I changed it to GetKeyDown and it worked perfectly thank you

[sharp umbra]

where do i start if im trying to learn how to make a 3d game in unity? (i tried googling for the answer but i dont really know what to look up)

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[sharp umbra]

huh i dont know how i didnt see that

[lunar axle]

do u mean i gotta type it out initially?

[slender nymph]

i'm saying that where ever you initially load the asset via addressables is where you store the label in a variable because surely you're loading it via addressables and not just trying to reverse engineer an addressable label from something not loaded via addressables

[lunar axle]

well in my case im tryna make a levelId string variable that structures like this:

<addressable label>#<level number>. So for convinience sake i dont want my future self to type of the addressable label that this obj has, i want it to retrieve via OnValidate()

or by naughtyattribute's button to do so.

so i kinda do need to reverse enginner

[slender nymph]

since this sounds like something you're doing purely in the editor it will actually be possible to do, it'll probably require using things from the UnityEditor namespace (which means you'll need to make sure to exclude that code from the build), but you can use the AssetDatabase to get an asset's guid from its asset path (which you can also get via the AssetDatabase), then with the guid it looks like you can call GetAssetEntry on your AddressableAssetSettings object to get the entry which will have the labels assigned to that object

[mellow lance]

Question:
I'm pretty new to Unity and i'm wondering how I would make some code that isn't linked to scripts attached to game objects?

I'm used to using Blazor and ASP.NET for personal projects, so trying to find the unity equivalent of making services/models/di/singletons/etc that aren't in game objects.

[timber tide]

just don't inherit from monobehavior

[naive pawn]

you may also want to consider SOs or singleton monobehaviours, depending on the specific needs of the task

[mellow lance]

so any services/models/etc i want to make just get thrown into the asset folder without any exceptions? Wouldnt anything i want running or saving info in the background still be reliant on gameobjects?

[timber tide]

well, if we want to think of singletons it's probably a static class versus monoclass versus scriptableobject

[midnight plover]

in the end its c#, make them static and access from anywhere. dont make them static, create an instance on runtime, whatever you like. GameObjecsts are just visual representations with properties that are still c# classes in the end. monobehaviour just brings the unity engine loop conveniently to your scripts

[timber tide]

static -> allocates when first called
mono -> exists on scene and may not exist when first called
scriptableobject -> doesnt exist in scene but is allocated similar to how resources are loaded

mono singleton is interesting such that it can serve as an entry point for each scene, meaning that each time you load a new scene that singleton can be a completely different instance.

[naive pawn]

i find that monobehavior singleton in an additive, persistent scene makes more sense and is easier to manage than having the singleton in every scene

[timber tide]

yeah there's a lot of ways to use them. Additive is useful for something like a object pool where you only ever want to allocate objects once throughout the game

[sour fulcrum]

i am slowly leaning towards scriptableobject singletons lowkey

[elfin pike]

how i understand, i cant serialize field in static class to reference SO?

[sour fulcrum]

static means it’s associated to the class, not a instance of the class

So no inspector correct

[elfin pike]

how i can get reference of SO in static

[north kiln]

Generally you don't want something to be static, you may want to look into the singleton pattern

[midnight plover]

Noones gonna read a one liner log...

[elfin pike]

never?

[midnight plover]

static can be used for methods that cover specific outputs for example. I use static methods for easing, that just output an eased value based on the start, end and progress time. But trying to access a "runtime" object reference from a static class is the wrong direction. You rather have, as vertx says, a singleton handling your reference and you couldhave a static class that extends your methods like with my easing example.

[sour fulcrum]

I mean it’s not necessarily the wrong direction, just depends on why they wanted it to be static

[midnight plover]

if you try to access a runtime object from a static class, that lives outside of your scene scope (in unity), you will most likely run into a hard coded reference to either a name, a file to be loaded by name/path or something else. I mean, sure, you CAN do that, but I would avoid it.

[elfin pike]

I hope, im not only beginner, who thought that all games need GameManager

[sour fulcrum]

Most do yeah

[elfin pike]

Dont see reason for my game to have. mostly it stores game states and sessionData

[midnight plover]

managers are a good concept to keep your things organised. Most likely having a manager for specific systems and one for your main game loop for example. Otherwise you could run into lose code that rely on each other but you lose the overview of the states they are in, because all scripts should in theory cover all states at all time.

[elfin pike]

thats great, you can master anything. if you cant coding try to get good with somthing else in unity.

[quartz wedge]

One of the issues with game managers is that they usually end up as singletons or static objects. Statics and singletons are fine for certain things (loggers, helper methods), pretty much anything that doesn't contain state. The problem with the approach of singletons and managers for everything is that they seem convenient and as a "quick win" but as your project grows in size/complexity, you start to see the shortcomings of singletons. There is a software term called "technical debt", this is pretty much the concept of "kicking the can down the street", you are doing something short-term that can have larger implications as your project grows. This shows itself through statics and singletons in the form of your scripts.objects being "mutable", meaning they can change. If you have a lot of globals in your project that all systems can access/modify, you can no longer rely on the integrity of that state (as anything could change it). So I would say while statics/singletons seem very useful at first, they are difficult to maintain and scale as your requirements change. This is the negative impact that managers can have on a project (not all but most managers tend to be singletons and be responsible for a lot)

[midnight plover]

From my pov, the singleton pattern should actually prevent your static instance from being changed. If not, the singleton pattern was not implemented correctly. About statics, I agree with you, they can make it difficult to be tracked and also be cleaned when it comes to threading and keep track of what is still running or not (which can always be an issue, static or not :D)

[quartz wedge]

Functionally there is no difference between a static object and a singleton in terms of use-case. You could say a singleton does provide a level of encapsulation (private constrcutor) but the only difference that really matters between the two is that a singleton is an object with a static member, meaning you can use inheritance whereas you cannot inherit from a static class. Beyond that they are the same and provide the same benefits (purely global state). The downside of a singleton is that every system can access it from anywhere. This makes it more conventient as your game logic is "centralised" but then you lack proper boundries how how your system connects and communicate with eachother, so you end up with one "god-object" that becomes the core dependeny on pretty much every system you create. Scripts should be small and have one reason to change "Single Responsibility". If you give your script a general name (GameManager.cs), then what is the responsibility? You could argue maintaining the state of the game world but because of the naming, it encourages your to overload its responsibilities which can be difficult to maintain in a larger project with growing/changing requirements. There is also the argument that it hinders testability but not many people follow TDD in game development

[midnight plover]

As this becomes a discussion of "whats the best approach" with different viewing points, I leave this conversation to not clutter up the channel more. But thanks for your insights and the short exchange of knowledge 🙂

[naive pawn]

Functionally there is no difference between a static object and a singleton in terms of use-case.
this might be true in plain OOP singletons, but in unity a singleton can be a monobehaviour, where you could have serialized fields. there's definitely a difference in this environment.

[quartz wedge]

No problem, I didn't want what I mentioned to come off as "preachy" or "this way is the only correct way", a conversation came up regarding statics and I just wanted to offer some potential concerns with over-using them or at least highlight some of the downsides of them in larger projects

[quartz wedge]

You're right I should have clarified that, there is a difference in the context of Unity vs pure OOP

[glossy eagle]

how can I duplicate a VisualElement? Because it doesn't seem I can use Instantiate

[night raptor]

It seems like VisualElements themselves cannot be cloned, but you can make the element you want into a UXML document and instantiate that document multiple times in your UI. Only works if that is an option of course. https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-make-a-clone-copy-of-a-visualelement/753562. #🧰┃ui-toolkit would be a better channel (if for an editor tool, #↕️┃editor-extensions)

[real thunder]

what approach would u use to determine if an enemy vehicle presses the player/someone and damage it like it's crushing?
no physics

[glossy eagle]

okay thanks

[real thunder]

well there is kinda physics but agents don't really obey it

I can use a rigidbody and a trigger collider but how to filter out situations where, like, a tank is rotating and a player touches it's back turning away so they move the same direction and no damage should be done

[night raptor]

Btw instantiate as in VisualTreeAsset.Instantiate, not Object.Instantiate which only works for GameObjects and Components

[glossy eagle]

yes, I just found that out, thanks hahaha

[real thunder]

I think I can use Physics.ComputePenetration to get a hit direction, some Raycast to get a hit position, use Rigidbody.GetPointVelocity with that position, calculate angle inbetween velocity and de-penetration, and if it's lower than like 60 do tick of damage

no, wait... kinematic rigidbodies don't really have velocities do they

[elfin pike]

What else singleton can be? I only know about instance in assets and scene

[naive pawn]

"singleton" in unity and "singleton" in general oop have different implementations because of the context/environment

[quartz wedge]

I think Chris was pointing out the fact that because a Singleton in Unity can inherit/derive from Monbehaviour, that gives you the added benefit of hooking up references via the inspector, since the Singleton script is a compoenent that can be attached to GameObjects in the context of Unity. So you get that extra sense of functionality from it being a component/Monobehaviour. This is something that you wouldn't get with a Singleton outside of Unity for example

[elfin pike]

I'm going to rewrite mission selection map. Had points throwing data at singleton on click. Now have to reference them to enable when level is unlocked

[night raptor]

Yes and no. The velocity itself doesn't move the rigidbody but if you are using MovePosition to move it, .linearVelocity will update properly. That I assume is to make the interpolation work. I would think GetPointVelocity would also work then (for rotation, MoveRotation must be used)

[real thunder]

I gues for now I ll give up on that idea

[humble summit]

hello i hae this code that checks if all enemies are dead, and if they are the game win ui shows up

but it doesnt show up

my enemies are tagged with "Enemy"

[wintry quarry]

Is the log printing?

[humble summit]

what

[wintry quarry]

The log you put in LevelCleared()

is it printing in the console?

[humble summit]

how do i check that

[wintry quarry]

by looking at the console

If you're doing unity development without your console window visibile at all times, you are basically flying blind

[wintry quarry]

Why did you put the log if you didn't intend on checking if it printed 🤔 ?

[humble summit]

no i don't think it does

[wintry quarry]

then you are never getting to where enemiesAlive is less than or equal to 0

You should add more logs

put another one inside EnemyDied

like:

Debug.Log($"An enemy died. There are {enemiesAlive} enemies remaining");```

See if that is printing as expected whenever an enemy dies

and make sure the number of enemies it thinks there are is accurate

[humble summit]

it doesnt print

[wintry quarry]

then you are never calling EnemyDied() when you kill an enemy

[humble summit]

on enemy died

[wintry quarry]

that's why nothing is working

[humble summit]

oh i think i know

oh im deleting enemies myself

[wintry quarry]

Add a log here

make sure this actually is running

[humble summit]

is this not working because i am deleting the enemies myself?

[wintry quarry]

IDK what you mean

you mean the Destroy()? That's irrelevant

[humble summit]

im not shooting them in game, i just delete them from the scene when running

[wintry quarry]

yes then of course

that's the problem

[humble summit]

but then the code doesnt execute

[wintry quarry]

it's not going to run your code then yeah

[humble summit]

oh

well i hope this it

i need to test it

[elfin pike]

Hmm. Level manager rabbit hole

[humble summit]

it appears it does not work

i added a log ot the enemy healt script

and not even that shows up when the enemy gets shot and killed

[nocturne hawk]

Im ggonna spawn a prefab inside of an object but how can I control where the prefabs appear on the object?

[elfin pike]

First I would make all variable and functions, which won't be accessed by anything else "private". Also private is default, so not necessary to put it. For in inspector referencing you can serialize field [SerializeField]

[elfin pike]

Parenting and anchors.

[nocturne hawk]

I have 0 clue what that is

[elfin pike]

It's UI or game object with text?

[nocturne hawk]

huh?

[elfin pike]

Searching by tag is much slower, then layers. Enemies get instanced (spawned in scene) or manually placed?

[elfin pike]

Go to #📲┃ui-ux they will help you

[humble summit]

it works now

thanks

but i have found a new really bad bug i need to fix

god i hate programming

[elfin pike]

Writing cleaner and more stable architecture of code helps with bug spotting

[humble summit]

im not the one for code writing to begin with

[elfin pike]

You can maybe find people to do Collab.

[humble summit]

yeah this is a solo project

[elfin pike]

I have 1 solo and 1 duo project. I better to work with somebody, easier to focus on your part of job

[nocturne hawk]

solved it with grid layout group

[humble summit]

i am working this solo mostly so when i shit on devs for ruining or releasing a bad product even though they have 5 plus devs with years of time and smartasses come to defend them with "uh make your own game then" i can show them i did

[nocturne hawk]

you could mabye have like kinda somehow said that

[humble summit]

i'm looking at the indie stone with project zomboid and half sword @elfin pike

and such

[nocturne hawk]

I think you responded to the wrogn guy💀

[humble summit]

oops

[nocturne hawk]

lol nw

[elfin pike]

You could have solved without any extra classes

[elfin pike]

With increasing Dev count, it becomes harder to manage. Yeah, good luck with that

[real thunder]

somehow me trying to gamedev for a long time curbed my attitude like that
I can't say it's hard but it's pretty tedious to do anything
I don't really have several lifetimes to make all I want let alone to make all I want polished
So I becoming the part of the problem and... I don't mind

[granite elk]

Hello, i know this might not be a code related question, but how do I stay motivated in making my first real game? (A 3 months project) I feel bored when im making it...

[real thunder]

why did you start making it?

[granite elk]

Because i wanted to explore game dev, i have learned unity for a month now and i know the basics, i have made 2 simple games and now i want to make a real game, something really playable, but im not motivated rn

[verbal dome]

Go play some good games and get inspired

[granite elk]

I already have the game idea (even tough its not the best but i will learn real gane things at least)

Its just that when I really start making it i get bored easily

[rich adder]

reduce the size of your scope

[granite elk]

It is already a simple game

[elfin pike]

I would be happy to help

[rich adder]

..depends how you define "simple" make smaller wins you set yourself for the day.
or maybe take a break from it and come back to it when you're more inspired.
you can easily burn out

[toxic ledge]

i just finish the tutorial ypee

[granite elk]

With what? If you mean with code thanks but i still need to learn alone

[elfin pike]

What idea you had for the game?

[rich adder]

btw game design discussions overall should be in a thread in #💻┃unity-talk
this is a coding channel

[granite elk]

The idea is that u are a lighthouse keeper

[blissful stratus]

how can i make spam key in my game?

you have to spam the key to pass

[wintry quarry]

count the number of times the user presses the key

and have some target number of times they have to press it

if they press less than the number, they fail

(within the time period, of course)

[blissful stratus]

i want to make like when you stop spam for less than a 0.5 sec the spam bar decreases until you fill it up again?

[naive pawn]

make it continually decrease and add some to it every time you press the button

[wintry quarry]

what's a "spam bar"? You've underspecified the problem.

Sounds like maybe you want a continually decreasing number and each press increases it by a fixed amount

Quick example: @blissful stratus

float startingValue = 0.5f;
float failValue = 0f;
float winValue = 1f;
float decreasePerSecond = 0.5f;
float increasePerPress = 0.1f;
float currentValue;

void Start() {
  currentValue = startingValue;
}

void Update() {
  currentValue -= Time.deltaTime * decreasePerSecond;
  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P)) {
    currentValue += increasePerPress;
  }

  Debug.Log($"Current value: {currentValue}");

  if (currentValue <= failValue) Fail();
  else if (currentValue >= winValue) Win();
}```

[blissful stratus]

thx man🫡🫡

[limber stone]

Hello, I am not certain if this is the correct channel to post in so please correct me if this is the wrong location so that I can move this plea for help.

I am currently trying to build a project that I have been working on for a while however whenever I do so it just is the default unity blue colour after a grey screen that fades away. In addition to that the frame rates exceed my frame cap of 240 which suggests to me that nothing is running and the resolution becomes 4:3 when the game should only be running in 16:9. Please could I get some help?

These are my build settings as well

And this is how it should look like at launch

[wintry quarry]

First thing to do is check the player logs

(make it a development build so it writes logs)

[limber stone]

alright

[swift crag]

you'll also see errors in-game in a development build

[autumn quartz]

Hey does anyone know where I can find any resources for making a 3D platformer in Unity?
I have the models and very basic stuff but idk where to find the right tutorials and ppl lol

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[limber stone]

Could I please ask where it writes the logs?

[slender nymph]

!logs 👇 go to the documentation and find the player logs

[radiant void]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[limber stone]

This just makes things more confusing

I think for some reason it is rendering 1x1 pixels

I have no clue why

I changed the scene and it rendered the main colour from that scene which is red

Just this now

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like maybe a script of yours is behaving unexpectedly

do you ahve any code in your project that sets the game resolution?

I would search for that

[limber stone]

actually

possibly

that could be it

[swift crag]

what do you mean "main colour"?

[limber stone]

The most dominant colour on the screen

[wintry quarry]

maybe average or median pixel color 😛

[limber stone]

Sorry for the clarification

Yeah, median.

Also

[swift crag]

do you mean that you changed the background color of the camera?

[vocal veldt]

why does the flashlight's rotation only lerp when moving up and down

[swift crag]

if not, show what you actually did

[limber stone]

After changing the starting resolution in the player options the splash screen works but past that it reverts back to the issue

[slender nymph]

!code 👇

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[vocal veldt]

https://paste.ofcode.org/FAU65xTY7g2CFCB9dN2awC

oops i didn't set the language

whatever

[wintry quarry]

is the flashlight a child of the player object?

or the camera object

[limber stone]

ehh, I would rather not-
It's a rather cringey easter egg scene that I made in 5 minutes because I was bored and wanted to do something a bit more silly

[wintry quarry]

yeah so:

transform.Rotate(0, mouseX, 0);```

when you rotate the player, the flashlight will rotate immediately with it

since you're rotating only the camera for up and down, THEN your code with the lerp matters

[swift crag]

oh, so the flashlight is parented

[vocal veldt]

ohhhh

[swift crag]

i thought it might have been the "Point Light" object

that makes more sense

[vocal veldt]

got it thx

[swift crag]

If you want to keep it parented to the player, you could remember the rotation from the last frame and lerp from that to the goal rotation

[wintry quarry]

The answer here would be to either unchild the flashlight entirely and control its position/rotation via script, or to rearrange the hierarchy so there's a non-rotating object that is the parent of the flashlight but still moves

or yeah... hack it like Fen described

[vocal veldt]

i moved the flashlight object to be a child of Player

instead of the playerobject

[swift crag]

I think that makes more sense, yeah

[wintry quarry]

if Player doesn't rotate and PlayerObject does, that will work

[vocal veldt]

yes it worked

[limber stone]

ah

So I think I found the issue

This is called at start and if you don't already have a save file

The settings.resolution variable just stays at the default 0

[wintry quarry]

that'll do it

[limber stone]

Same problem with the uncapped frame rate

Thanks for the help!

[wintry quarry]

I do like the idea of a 1x1 resolution game though

maybe a hackathon project

[limber stone]

mm!

That does sound like it could have some sort of potential

tbh

I don't know if the unity editor was rendering at 0x0 or if it rounded up to 1x1

I have no idea how 0x0 would work, so probably the latter

[wintry quarry]

it turns into an audiobook

[limber stone]

I feel like I remember there being some sort of game out there which was just completely black, it had no graphics and you had to rely on sound in order to do things therefore simulating blindness.

May have been a vr game, I am not entirely certain

Also, I have just applied a fix and tried commenting out all the code that could change the resolution

It still

Doesn't work

It seems that

Even if there is no path to this part of the code

Even if it is setting the resolution to something higher than 0,0

As long as the code exists it will do the glitch

[autumn quartz]

I followed a basic 3D platformer tutorial and my character isn’t detected as “grounded” when she is standing still
Is this a common issue

[slender nymph]

you likely followed it incorrectly. show the relevant setup and code if you want help

[autumn quartz]

hold on

[elfin pike]

Draw gizmo

[autumn quartz]

i’m like extremely new to this what does that mean 😭

[slender nymph]

it's an unhelpful response until we actually know how you are performing the check. show the relevant details

[solar hill]

send the code here

[radiant void]

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[autumn quartz]

my laptop doesn’t have discord so i had to use my phone for the pictures

[slender nymph]

ain't nobody trying to read those photos. share the code correctly

[autumn quartz]

uhhh ok

[elfin pike]

Please don't. My eyes burned by what I see

[polar acorn]

Then use the web page

!code

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[elfin pike]

Debug.log isgrounded. Charactercontroller settings maybe not right

For love of god don't get components in update function. You can do it in start or awake

[elfin pike]

@autumn quartz Did you fix it?

[faint agate]

Hey guys I have a raycast that when I look slow left it tries to go right and back to left making this weird bounce back and forth effect. I tried smooth options but that didn’t fix it. My cam is in update and the ray is in late update. Someone recommended to change the execution order of the PocketPath script so that it always runs after the camera script but im a little lost on how to do that besides the late update method which didnt work. any help is appreciated

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PocketPath : MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField] private float maxDistance = 200f; // configurable max distance for the ray

    private void LateUpdate() {
        // Create a ray from the center of the camera
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f));

        // Draw a yellow debug ray in the Scene view
        Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction * maxDistance, Color.yellow);
    }
}

[gaunt cipher]

project settings -> Script Execution Order

[rich adder]

doubt thats the fix

[gaunt cipher]

same but that is how to change the execution order

[verbal dome]

You are drawing a ray away from the camera so I'd expect it to look weird yes, if visible at all

What do you expect to see?

[slender nymph]

btw if you just want a ray from the center of the camera, you don't need to use ViewportPointToRay, just use the camera's transform.forward as the direction and it's transform.position as the origin

[verbal dome]

Slightly different because then it doesn't use the near plane position, but that often doesn't matter

[faint agate]

thank you

[final trellis]

I have a class that has a ushort value _amount and a string value _additionalOperations
inside the class, I have a short function called ExtractValue().

how would I have it read the string as a mathematical operation ( probably testing if its valid using regex ) and return it?
( example: _amount of 6 and _additionalOperations as "{_amount} / 2" should return with 3)

[faint agate]

you think it could be my camera jitter. I want to think that but the raycast is bouncing the opposite way im looking so im not sure

[verbal dome]

Is your camera a child of a rigidbody, does the rigidbody use interpolation, how's the rigidbody and camera being moved, etc.?

[faint agate]

yes to child and yes to interpolation.

[faint agate]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerLook : MonoBehaviour
{

    [Header("References")]
    [SerializeField] WallRun wallRun; 

    [SerializeField] public float sensX = 100f;
    [SerializeField] public float sensY = 100f;
    [SerializeField] public float YPlayerStartDirectionY = 180f;
    [SerializeField] public float XPlayerStartDirectionX = 180f;

    [SerializeField] Transform cam = null;
     [SerializeField] public Transform orientation = null;
    public bool invertYAxis = false;
    public bool invertXAxis = false;

    float mouseX;
    float mouseY;

    float multiplier = 0.01f;

   public float xRotation;
   public float yRotation;

    private void Start() {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
        yRotation = YPlayerStartDirectionY;
        xRotation = XPlayerStartDirectionX;
    }

    private void Update() {


            mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X");
            mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y");

        yRotation += mouseX * StagesSenseManager.Instance.SenseValue * multiplier;
            xRotation -= mouseY * StagesSenseManager.Instance.SenseValue * multiplier;

        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 80f);



        cam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, wallRun.tilt);
        orientation.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);


    }

}

[slender nymph]

assuming orientation is the rigidbody, you are breaking the interpolation by modifying its transform which is causing jitter

[verbal dome]

I think it's a "camera container" object

Seen many tutorials teach that lately

Or maybe it's the chatbots

[faint agate]

it was a youtube video

[verbal dome]

How do you move the rb? What boxfriend said is the usual cause

[faint agate]

I want to say its this. this is in update

        _movementDirection = InputSystemHandler.Instance.PlayerInputActions.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        horizontalMovement = _movementDirection.x;
        verticalMovement = _movementDirection.y;

        moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalMovement + orientation.right * horizontalMovement;

[final trellis]

note: no math more complex than just addition, subtracting, division and multiplication will be required, just those operations and the ability to parse variable names

[verbal dome]

Also pro tip, use a low time scale to debug jitter/interpolation issues

[slender nymph]

that does not move anything, this is just calculating the direction and distance.

[faint agate]

you're right one sec

[faint agate]

    void MovePlayer() {
        if (isGrounded && !OnSlope()) {
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * movementMultiplier, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        } else if (isGrounded && OnSlope()) {
            rb.AddForce(slopeMoveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * movementMultiplier, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        } else if (!isGrounded) {
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * movementMultiplier * airMultiplier, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        } 
    }

[slender nymph]

and how do you rotate it

[faint agate]

the camera? or the rigidbody

[slender nymph]

the rigidbody

[faint agate]

i dont think I am

[faint agate]

        rb.freezeRotation = true;

thats in start

[slender nymph]

and you are absolutely certain you aren't rotating its transform? when i said "rigidbody" i was referring to the entire rigidbody object

[faint agate]

I dont believe so. I just played the game and moved around while player selected and didnt see rotation change

the only thing rotating is my camera holder

[faint agate]

would this still be a cause even if my rigidbody rotation isnt changing?

[slender nymph]

that would only be the case if the first part of that message was true

[faint agate]

i think I fixed it

[rich adder]

unless I misunderstood your question, can't you use something like NCalc ?

[faint agate]

thank you for this

[faint agate]

and thank you for this

The ray is finally smooth cause of that thank you I switched it to cam forw and it works now. Much appreciated. Ive been stuck on this bug for so long thank youuu

[final trellis]

👀

id have to look into this

from a surface level it looks like what I need, if not a bit overkill

i think

[rich adder]

yeah probably lol

[final trellis]

yeah its what im looking for but waaaayyyyy overkill

[rich adder]

maybe start with some Regex for safely parsing math characters & then do the evaluation ?

[final trellis]

i also wanna add my own custom little thingies ( like being able to type R(a, b) and it gives a number between A and B )

so i think regex would also help with that i guess

[rich adder]

It might.
there is probably some really simple solution but this is going way over my head lol sry thought I could figure it out my brain aint mathin rn
if anything ask here https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1390355039272439868

[final trellis]

aigh, i wont forward my original question bc im expanding it a bit

[verbal dome]

@final trellis FYI Unity also has this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/ExpressionEvaluator.html
It used to be in UnityEditor but seems like they moved it to runtime also

Not sure if you can add custom operators/functions tho...

[final trellis]

oh hell yeah

[final trellis]

dammit

i'd have to parse the custom stuff first

but i guess the actual evaluation parts solved! just need to do crazy shit with regex i think???

[verbal dome]

The ExpressionEvaluator code is readable with IDE if you go to the source

Maybe you can use it as reference

[terse saddle]

yo, can someone help me? im making a 2d videogame but the collitions just dont collition

[verbal dome]

(I'm not a lawyer)

[vast matrix]

For some reason my Camera follow code randomly broke and completely stopped working despite it working perfectly before. Here is my code if someone could help me find the issue: ```using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerCam : MonoBehaviour
{
public float sensX;
public float sensY;

public Transform Orientation;

float xRotation;
float yRotation;

private void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
}

private void Update()
{
    // Get mouse input

    float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensX;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensY;

    yRotation += mouseX;

    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90);

    // Rotate cam and orientation
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
    Orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
}

}

[verbal dome]

How are you moving the object that has the rigidbody?

[verbal dome]

Check for console errors or other scripts you have added that could be modifying the camera (and make sure your camera has this script)

Also: https://unity.huh.how/mouse-input-and-deltatime

[terse saddle]

this is the script

i guess there is an obvious error im not able to see

but according to chat gpt the script is rigth so i dont know

[frosty hound]

Guess it's unsolvable if chatGPT can't figure it out.

Possibilities:

1. This script isn't actually on your player
2. You have too low (or no) speed value. You shouldn't use default values for public fields as they're overridden by the inspector.

[verbal dome]

Saw the first screenshot, looks like you are using a kinematic rigidbody on the character

If you do that then you are expected to do your own collision checks

[terse saddle]

it is

the player can actually move

the problem is that it passes through objects

[frosty hound]

I didn't realize your issue was collision related

Osmal's point stands though

[terse saddle]

i also tried in dinamic

it doesnt work neither

[verbal dome]

With dynamic you need to use rigidbody.linearVelocity or AddForce to move it

Not MovePosition

[terse saddle]

ohhhhhhhhhh

thanks man

[night raptor]

Actually iirc MovePosition is fine with the 2D physics engine

Moves the rigidbody to the specified position by calculating the appropriate linear velocity required to move the rigidbody to that position during the next physics update

Same does not apply for 3D though

[verbal dome]

Yeah, though the doc also says

Note: MovePosition is intended for use with kinematic rigidbodies.
Still unsure what the limitation here is though, haven't tried it too much

I think the kinematic collision wasn't working because this full kinematic contacts wasn't enabled on the RB 🤔

[night raptor]

Sounds weird. It also states:

If the rigidbody is kinematic then any collisions won't affect the rigidbody itself and will only affect any other dynamic colliders.
Sounds like either would be fine. Last time I tried it worked fine, using velocity would probably be safer option though just to be sure

[verbal dome]

Seems like this only makes it send OnCollisionEnter2D etc. messages but still does not physically collide

This can be a useful feature if detecting collisions is required with details of the contact points and collision normal but without the automatic collision response.

And I can't seem to get a kinematic RB2D to collide with anything when using MovePosition 🤔

So from everything I see, it doesn't automatically apply collisions forces to stop itself on any collision

[night raptor]

That's odd. Same with Continuous Collisions? Of course with Discrete you can set it behind a wall and it will teleport there

Never really done 2D games myself but I'm pretty sure I did test this couple years ago and it did collide correctly.

[verbal dome]

Yeah, tried with CCD, doesn't work

[livid anchor]

I have a small but annoying issue with events.
I have class that just has static actions, and I can attach/listen to such actions, but not trigger an event. I have an error saying the action does not exist in the type...

public static class RunnerEventSystem
{
    public static Action<float> OnPlayerJump;
    public static Action<float> OnPlayerOutOfFuel;
}

private void Awake()
{
    //That's okay
    RunnerEventSystem.OnPlayerJump += Jump;
}

private void Awake()
{
    //That's not okay (ignore the fact that it's in the awake)
    RunnerEventSystem.OnPlayerJump? Invoke(_jumpDuration);
}

[unreal veldt]

you’re super close. The issue is just a small syntax mistake.

In C#, the null-conditional invoke operator must be ?.Invoke(), not ? Invoke().

So this line:

RunnerEventSystem.OnPlayerJump? Invoke(_jumpDuration);

should be:

RunnerEventSystem.OnPlayerJump?.Invoke(_jumpDuration);

[livid anchor]

It was indeed a small issue -_-

[unreal veldt]

Haha yeah, those are the worst ones

C# is super picky about tiny syntax details, and ?.Invoke() is one of those things that’s easy to mistype when you’re moving fast. One missing . and suddenly the compiler acts like the whole thing doesn’t exist.

[midnight plover]

If you running into this and your IDE isnt telling you the error, you might have not setup your IDE correctly.

!ide

[radiant void]

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Select one:

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[north kiln]

static events 🤕

[vital sun]

This is probably the best channel for this so here we go

I want to implement Lua scripting support for my project and I would like to ask for some recommendations as to which library/store asset would be the best for my usecase

The idea is that the scripts would be read at runtime and each script file would be a definition of behavior for singular things like events, skills, etc

Ideally being able to read properties and call methods on specified unity gameobjects with as little friction as possible

[north kiln]

If it's their own project then it's fine

[vital sun]

I'm not trying to mod someone's game if that's what you are implying

[midnight plover]

Oh, good to know, because I was told otherwise. Alrighty then 🙂

[midnight plover]

Yeh, forget my message then, just quoted what I was told, but that was obviously not 100% correct. So go ahead 🙂

[midnight plover]

I worked with some editor scripts, where you would use a dropdown reflection list to get all methods of a gameobject, that supported the singleton pattern, so on runtime, it will call the Instance + methodName on that runtime singleton object. So adapting this to your situation using predefined strings for methods/types might also work in this case.

I guess, it depends on how complex you targeting your system to be. This is a simple approach for a simple task, could be extended but might not be the correct solution if it gets way more complex.

[vital sun]

The exact complexity is something that I have yet to determine, as this project of mine is in the very early stages

[heavy rampart]

i have vsc which one Is better vs or vsc

guys which one

[naive pawn]

they're both adequate

[heavy rampart]

oh alr

i mean i mostly use vsc I'm new to game dev haven't used vs for a while xddd

[vital sun]

Either way I first need to implement anything and experiment with it which leads back to my question about library/store asset recommendations as to what should I use for Lua support

[errant breach]

Hello !
Im trying to access the __SequenceChangeLevel__, i've created a universal trigger zone that usually can access gameObject's script's function but for the first time, it doesn't work. The __SequenceChangeLevel__cannot be found nor executed.

Am i doing a mistake ?

In this other example, i do manage to access the __activate__ function so i don't know what im doing wrong.

    {
        Invoke(nameof(Activation), timeBeforeSpawn);
        AddEnemyCount();
    }```

[sour fulcrum]

i know it's not the question but whats with the underscores

whats in here

also another thing that doesnt matter but most people don't put scripts in the name of their script, it's redundant

[midnight plover]

you cant expose a function with two parameters. because the activate has one float, it is considered as a dynamic one, which is supported by the default events GUI

The part with "No function" usually shows you all public methods that have one param, like a float, string or boolean if the event on your inspector class supports it. But there is by default none for multiple params. You gotta create that custom editor for yourself afaik

[errant breach]

It's just so i can find it easier on the list !

[errant breach]

And all of that :)

[midnight plover]

Its sorted alphabetically, so should not be too hard to find while sacrificing readability of your code 😉

[errant breach]

Alllriiggghhttt... Thank for the explanations ! It so much better now that i understand !!!

[midnight plover]

I have to extend my explanation, just to not give half baked information. So the "no function" part shows your functions, when for example a UI Slider event supports the float value. So instead of hard typing it in the even,t you can chose the dynamic one and it will call it with the slider event (just for example). But you can still get the method from the lower alphabetically sorted part of the list, where you can type in the float you want to pass in too. Just to make sure, you know both ways how your public methods are handled with one param 🙂

[elfin pike]

gettings "IOException: Sharing violation on path".no idea why. how i understand error, something else is accessing file, but only one class instance, has access to file

        File.WriteAllText(SavePath, json);```I have same setup in other classes, but they dont throw error

[humble summit]

@wintry quarry thank you for telling me to log pretty much everything. i've fixed half of my problems in the game now and repairing code is way easier

[midnight plover]

You should log your path, what is it. Are you trying to access a path you are not allowed to?

[elfin pike]

Path is allowed, I created it in class

[midnight plover]

Well, the error says, something is not allowed on your path. So you are trying to access "something", thats not allowed. Maybe you are trying to write a file while reading it, maybe you got the wrong path in and tried to save somewhere on the system.

[elfin pike]

Maybe I have to close it after writing

[midnight plover]

as long as we dont know your entire code of accessing the file, we can only guess

[elfin pike]

I can we also load function, which is also 2 lines

[midnight plover]

and when do you call them? right after? at the same time? give some information...

[elfin pike]

Load called in start of class life time. Save called in end of it at destroy

[midnight plover]

and no other script is accessing the same file?

[elfin pike]

yes, because i create filePath in class and in it also work with it

[noble ore]

not a coding question but can someone tell me how to get rid of this empty area, its annoying me

[midnight plover]

I assume your camera clipping planes are working here. check the camera settings for your scene camera

[hexed terrace]

#💻┃unity-talk is for general questions

That area is like that because you've focussed on something large, and then moved closer

Select the green plane, press F

[noble ore]

tried changing to your settings, still didnt really fix it

pressing f didnt really fix it either

[midnight plover]

Not my Settings… its your scene view settings cutting off with occlusion culling. Play around with it

[noble ore]

is it something with the zoom or something, it just shows 0.76x for some reason

i see

[wintry quarry]

Yep! Debugging code is a skill that is often underappreciated.

[charred monolith]

thats another view mode. I think its called orthogrphic view idk how to fix it tho. I mean i used to but forogt. Ask google

[naive pawn]

you click the button that says iso

i'm still not really sure what the expected behavior is tbh

[hexed terrace]

see how the grid stops part way, not reaching the edge of the window.. it's being cut off (would cut off the green plane too).

[naive pawn]

ah

[elfin pike]

Looks like I'm correct I open file but don't close it

[wild peak]

Try to move your camera with WASD while holding mouse left click

[elfin pike]

Looked up in "learn microslop com" about "FileSystem.WriteAllText Method". It says, that file should close after function finishes

[swift crag]

the settings shown are probably causing the problem

the near clip plane is at 17.7 meters

so anything that's closer to the camera than that will not be rendered

turn on "Dynamic Clipping" and then hit F to focus on the object

this will adjust the clipping planes to something sensible for whatever you have selected

[swift crag]

(also, this is a problem with the clipping planes, not with occlusion culling)

occlusion culling is used to disable renderers that are completely covered up by another renderer, and that only happens in the scene view when you have the Occlusion window open

[elfin pike]

From what I'm seeing in stack overflow, maybe 2 file streams get created. 2 file streams cant acces 1 file

[elder hearth]

Why isnt my ray shooting out the center of the camera holder? OR even the camera. Its not even the right direction.

cs
 RaycastHit hit;

 if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(CameraHolder.forward), out hit, 5))
 {
    Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(CameraHolder.forward) * hit.distance, Color.yellow);
 }

[keen dew]

Is this script on the camera holder? Does CameraHolder refer to a transform component? What's the purpose of the TransformDirection?

[wintry quarry]

transform.TransformDirection(CameraHolder.forward) this is definitely wrong

It should be:

Physics.Raycast(CameraHolder.position, CameraHolder.forward, out hit, 5)``` and
```cs
Debug.DrawRay(CameraHolder.position, CameraHolder.forward * hit.distance, Color.yellow);```

[dapper field]

how should I store persistent data if the gameobject won’t exist sometimes? Asking because if I’m reading correctly, File.WriteAllText() will overwrite anything I have saved in another file if I can’t call that gameobject’s save function, then it won’t have anything later.
(I don’t have access to exact code right now, I’m planning out in pseudocode while at school and kinda wanna know so I don’t run into issues later)

As in, if I have a float that a script will use, but the script only exists sometimes, should I use another class, a modifiable scriptable object with the fields, a different save file, etc, if that float should save its state between all instances of that script

[keen dew]

Surely the game doesn't need to save the data of a gameobject that doesn't exist at the time the save is made

[dapper field]

it’s player data, but the player controls different things at different times. At those times, I’m in a different scene and the other script no longer exists

i can provide better examples of what i’m trying to accomplish in about 3 hours-

[keen dew]

If you need to transfer modified data from one scene to another you can save it when the scene ends and restore when returning

[dapper field]

the data is different for each of the scenes
the original one needs its original data
if that makes sense
but the script doesn’t exist and I can’t call the save anymore

I also learned how to save like 2 days ago and its barely functional so maybe i’m misunderstanding how it works/ i just did it wrong

i’m just gonna re-ask the question in 3 hours, or maybe ill figure out between then. Sry if my bad code is giving you an aneurism

[hexed terrace]

You save the required data when it is about to be destroyed, not at some random point in the future when that data doesn't exist anymore

[dapper field]

my question is how to handle that data being overwritten cause apparently I’m supposed to use one json file to save to

[hexed terrace]

and save in such a way that doesn't overwrite data

either multiple files, or a json or something that adds data to it rather than completely writing a file every time

[dapper field]

Save to multiple files it is. Didn’t know if that was bad practice. ty

[keen dew]

You should have one save manager that handles making saves anyway, so instead of having each object handle saving independently they tell the save manager what to store and the save manager handles it centrally

[hexed terrace]

don't see why it would be, probably depends on the situation

[short gust]

is there any "fast" method of getting all types with attribute at runtime? I know about edit time TypeCache class thingy, but what about runtime? just iteration over assemblies is utterly slow even if filter out Unity/System assemblies before it

I need it do it once btw, but also want to avoid hickup on startup of the runtime when it do the iteration

[slender nymph]

what is the purpose of this? because a source generator might be a better option than doing it at runtime

[cosmic dagger]

why do you need this?

i'd rather have this beforehand, not during runtime . . .

[short gust]

I don't have a "runtime only" criteria btw, like I'm open to any solution to look up in google. I wrote about runtime gathering and iteration over assemblies only because I don't know anything else or how to do it in any better way, lol.

I'm writing something like attribute based "DI"-like thing just for learning sake and my own pet project usage.

[swift crag]

Pretty much

You should be able to do it once and hang onto the results after that, of course

[slender nymph]

you should research source generators, particularly incremental source generators. basically it will allow you to write code based on the existing code in your project, and you can make it do that only for types that have a specific attribute

[short gust]

thank you! I will try to wrap my head around that

[pseudo summit]

Hey

So uh i was following GMTKs tutorial on a flappy bird game, and in the update function thing he used instantiate and delayed it by setting a timer to 2 and then added time.Deltatime to t every other frame and reset back to 0 afrer the spawning. But when i increase the number from 2 to like anything the delay doenst change between the pillars spawning

[polar acorn]

Are you changing it in code or in the inspector

[pseudo summit]

In code

in visual studio

[polar acorn]

the code defines the default values. The entire point of the variables in the inspector is to override the default values.

change it in the inspector

[rich adder]

when you add script on a gameobject, once the value is Serialized by unity with public or [SerializeField] private the inspector takes precedence.
changing in the code will have no affect unless you were to reset the script or re-add it.

[swift crag]

the C# field initializers provide the initial value for the field; however, Unity then plugs its own values into those fields after creating the object

therefore, the field initializer only matters:

• when creating a brand new object, if the field is serialized
• for non-serialized fields

[jovial heron]

i have anystate connected to 3 animations one if them is "hurt" animation it uses a trigger variable after the paramater triggers and the animation plays the transition has exit time but it is skipped if another anystate condition is triggered how do i make the transition's exit time unskippable without turning the hurt paramter in to a bool

[swift crag]

Any State really means any state

It's not very useful for anything non-trivial

my VRChat brain said "oh, use a parameter driver to set a parameter when you enter the pain state, and then reset it when you exit the pain state"

[jovial heron]

ok i'll be more careful what to put therre

[swift crag]

Consider using Animator.Play() to forcibly enter the pain state, rather than using an Any State transition to get there

this does mean that your animator now depends on a script to work the way you want it

(well, it already did for parameters, duh, but now it requires more than parameters)

[solar hill]

do you need assistance with something?

this is a help channel.

yes

[queen adder]

using UnityEngine;

public class CharControllerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5f;
    public float jump = 2f;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;

    private CharacterController cc;
    private Vector3 velocity;

    float maxReach = 300;
    public GameObject Bed;
    public GameObject TimeManagerObj;


    void Start()
    {
        cc = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 move = transform.right * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") + transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        cc.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (cc.isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
        {
            velocity.y = -2f;
        }

        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && cc.isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jump * -2f * gravity);
        }

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        cc.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
        {

        // Will contain the information of which object the raycast hit
        RaycastHit hit;

        // if raycast hits, it checks if it hit an object with the tag Bed
        if (Input.GetKeyDown("e"))
        {
            if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out hit, maxReach)     &&
                    hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Bed"))

            {
                Sleep();
            }
        }
        
    
    }

    void Sleep()
    {
        TimeManagerObj.GetComponent<TimeManager>().totalSeconds = 86400f;
    }
    
}```



this is my character controller, i have assigned a cube the "Bed" tag, and the raycast and "Sleep()" function work but only on one specific corner of the bed obj for some reason ??

[wintry quarry]

First off - GetKeyDown in FixedUpdate is a bad idea

[slender nymph]

make sure your raycast isn't hitting something else

also that

[wintry quarry]

second - yeah. split up the if conditions and add a log showing what you actually did hit, if anything

[elder hearth]

Okays thanks!

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

if (Raycast(...)) {
  Debug.Log($"Hit {hit.collider.name} with tag {hit.collider.gameObject.tag}");
  if (hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Bed")) {
    // hit the bed
  }
}
else {
  Debug.Log("hit nothing");
}```

[vast matrix]

For some reason this code is rotating the Player along the wrong axis. Could someone help me fix it because I don't know what's wrong: ```using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerCam : MonoBehaviour
{
public float sensX;
public float sensY;

public Transform Orientation;

float xRotation;
float yRotation;

private void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
}

private void Update()
{
    // Get mouse input

    float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensX;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensY;

    yRotation += mouseX;

    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90);

    // Rotate cam and orientation
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
    Orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
}

}```

[naive pawn]

don't use deltaTime for mouse input btw

it's already per frame

[vast matrix]

Yeah idk why I used it

[naive pawn]

is Orientation a child/parent of this object?

[vast matrix]

yes it is

[naive pawn]

which one is it

[vast matrix]

it is a Child of the "Player" gameObject

[naive pawn]

...i don't know what that is in relation to this object

i'm not looking over your shoulder

[vast matrix]

Its a child of the gameObject this script is attached to

[naive pawn]

so it's the current gameobject that's being rotated incorrectly as well?

[vast matrix]

Yes

[naive pawn]

usually (as far as i've seen) you would have the camera as a child of the player, and you would have the player yaw and camera pitch separately

(probably not directly related to your issue, just commenting on the setup)

is the player rotated to begin with, in edit mode?

[vast matrix]

No

[naive pawn]

you could describe/show how exactly it's rotating incorrectly

[vast matrix]

It is rotating the gameObject along the X and Z axis instead of the Y axis. (Ie its rotating the player vertically instead of Horizontally)

[naive pawn]

the values in the inspector show the x/z values changing?

[vast matrix]

Yes.

[naive pawn]

is the player a child of anything else?

[vast matrix]

It is not a child of anything

[vast matrix]

Let me see if another script is causing this issue.

It is not because of another script

Im just gonna rewrite the code in order to find out where this issue is occuring

[dreamy lance]

anyone know how i could make this cinemachine camera only move when the player is leftclick and dragging instead of any time the mosue moves ?

[slender nymph]

#🎥┃cinemachine